Street Stoppers: The Martial Arts Most Devastating Trips, Sweeps, and Throws for Real Fighting
by Mark Mireles, Loren W. Christensen
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Author: Loren W. Christensen, Mark MirelesEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2009-01-29
ISBN: 1934903116
Number of pages: 288
Publisher: Turtle Press
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Book Review: A MMA book pretending to be street savy
Summary: 2 Stars
A case of false advertising? I believe that the contents of the book do not match the title. Being a martial artist who is noted for his use of trips and sweeps I found this book disappointing. The book consists of 40 to 50 throw/sweep/trip techniques. Of these, maybe a dozen would be of use for the average martial artist. I doubt that the authors have used even half of them in real life situations. There are also 21 combinations provided, again most of little use to the average reader. Most would be quite useful in a cage fight.
Even the authors divides the moves into low risk moves and high risk moves. They doesn't seem to identify which ones are high risk though. One of the reasons given for doing a high risk move is because you mastered the move (p.35). What the f...? In a street fight you do not want high risk moves. You want moves that are simple to do under stress and will let you escape the fight. Most of the throws start from a wrestling hold or from a wrestling grip of some sort, they would have been much more useful if they started from a clinch, or some entries were shown.
One can see that most of the moves come froma sport like MMA. The sports basis shows through philosphically in most of these moves. A lot of the moves are sacrafice moves or you follow the person to ground to apply a lock. This is nice in a ring or when there are more defenders than attackers (such as police situations), but for a situation at night with an unknown amount of attackers and an unknown amount of glass on the ground, they are of less utility.
The production values of this book are good, but a little more information on key points in each technique would be useful. The authors would have been better off choosing the best 12 techniques and covering them in a lot more detail. To quote the book "Don't fear the man that knows a thousand techniques; fear the man who has mastered one". If only they would have followed their own advice.
While there is good material in here (including my two favourite sweep/trips), I can't really recommend it. Rather, try finding some 1950s or earlier judo books. If you are a grappler, then maybe this could be useful. I will keep reading and see if there is some nugget in there that I have missed, but I doubt I will be buying anything else from these authors.
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